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Show ST. MICK WHIRRS IN VIA HELICOPTER Flown in on a giant, man-made dragon fly, Santa Claus landed not only in Sugar House Saturday, but deeply in the hearts of countless thousands of boy and girls as well. The jolly old Saint came by helicopter to keep a 2 o'clock date on the Plaza, and he landed right to the minute on time, stepped Into a great arena made by the little humanities that thronged the roped off area. st. Nick In to Sugar House from the North Pole. As the great crowd of little folk began to collect a full hour before the arrival time, Police Lieutenant Wilford Young and Officers Walter Wal-ter A. Stroud, Joe Banks and oth- ' ers moved In with a well organized organ-ized plan to rope off the area just west of the Plaza. This was done to protect eager kiddies from running run-ning into the possible danger of the blades of the big dragon fly. And as the giant bird landed, slick as a whistle and just as sharp, Santa and his pilot stepped out in complete safety. Traffic was let flow until the last minute to cause the least inconvenience in-convenience to the motorists. Pilot Mogck, once his precious cargo was delivered, stepped back into the whirly bird, and took off in a workmanlike demonstration dem-onstration of what can be done with a helicopter, once It is planned and arranged. The streets of Sugar House, of course, were festooned with elegant holiday trimmings. Live Christmas trees were attached at-tached to each light pole, and brilliant lights, greenery and other holiday decorations were everywhere every-where in sight. Then, boarding a sporty roadster, Santa rode through the streets of Sugar House, visiting with the small fry along the route that took him from the Plaza through all the business districts and back to Santa's Sugar House. The rotund saint, garhed in his traditional red and white apparel and with a flowing, snowy beard, shook hundreds of hands and greeted greet-ed the kiddies with hale and hearty helloes. Sugar House police did a workmanlike work-manlike job of roping off the area and keeping the eager youngsters in complete check and at the same time diverting automobile traffic into by-lanes with as little inconvenience as possible. An ambulance stood by, and snuad cars were at the ready to whisk Santa about his calling. There wasn't a single incident that could cause criticism on the part of the enthusiastic audience, their grown-up chaperones, the public, motoring or afoot. It was easy to see, as the big whirly bird hovered over the crowd, that all eyes were on Santa, and he didn't miss a trick In waving wav-ing his cheery greetings from several sev-eral hundred feet up. The kids ate it up. And when he landed, instead of a forest fire-like envelopment by the youngsters, Santa was given plenty of room to move around In as he traveled the entire enclosure greeting one and all. Neisen R. Bank, Christmas chairman, chair-man, and D. James Cannon chamber cham-ber of commerce executive secretary, secre-tary, made the arrangements with Pilot Cal Mogck to wing or whlr |
